Re: [PATCH v2] Replace instances of export VAR=VAL with VAR=VAL; export VAR

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzlwy2dkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <85ve7m8iix.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> It might be POSIX, but there are shells that do not like the
>> expression 'export VAR=VAL'.
>
> As long as we have no positive report about any such shell that
> _otherwise_ would be usable for git, why bother?

I thought somebody already mention that ash mishandles "export VAR=VAL" but otherwise Ok.

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